Month: May 2015

Yesterday the 7th grade had an African Union Day where we split into groups of two or three and were assigned a country. With the people in your group you had to decide what you wanted to do about the conflict in Burundi. We would come up with a resolution of what our country can do for them and then we would find other countries and talk with them about what they thought they should do. We would find another country that thought the same that you did and then we worked with that group to make another resolution together. We then debated with other countries on what we thought should be done.

In doing this project I learned how the African Union solves their problems only on a smaller scale. It was fun and I liked being able to debate what we thought would be best for the country of Burundi and the continent as a whole.

My favorite part of this was the debating and voting. But I wish that we could have been a little bit more prepared on how things were going to happen and what we need to know ahead of time so it wasn’t so confusing in the morning.

Some relationships that changed throughout the movie was the relationship between Francios and Mandela. Their relationship changed after they met. They grew closer and grew to understand each other better. Another relationship that changed was the black and white body guards for Mandela. It was originally just black body guards but then Mandela hired white body guards and the blacks weren’t very excepting. Eventually the black body guards remembered that the goal was to keep Mandela safe and so they decided to look over the differences and work together.

This movie represents post apartheid by the way everyone is being more excepting to others. The blacks could vote and had more freedom. Also the relationships between the whites and the blacks were being strengthened. They were now considered a part of government. Although the spring Box remained the same after apartheid. Not everything was solved but you could see a difference.